What Is Zeitgeist Literature? A virtual talk by Christy Wampole
Friday, November 11 @ 3:30 pm CST
University of Wisconsin-Madison, The French House, 633 N Frances St, and via Zoom
Christy Wampole is a professor of French at Princeton University. Her specific areas of focus are nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century French, Francophone, and Italian literature, especially the novel and the essay, with a special interest in feminism, ecology, and media. She has written on topics including botany and the metaphor of rootedness, masculinity, drones, photography, the Minitel and Internet, irony, realism, essays and essay-film, journalism, and gender issues in France and the United States. Her books include Degenerative Realism: Novel and Nation in 21st-Century France (Columbia University Press 2020) and Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor (University of Chicago Press 2016). She has also published various articles, translations, and book reviews in MLN, The Modern Language Review, The New York Times, The New Yorker, L’Esprit créateur, Small Axe, The French Review, Magazine littéraire, Quaderni del ‘900, and Yale French Studies.
To attend via Zoom (registration required):
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArc--tpjktH9BarReNA0IFCQ1QNVkbMwjh
This talk is sponsored by the Department of French & Italian, The French House, and the Center for European Studies at the University of Wisconson-Madison.
Contacts :
Joshua Armstrong (jtarmstrong@wisc.edu)
Fabien Siles (fsiles@wisc.edu)